The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-06-22
GENTILEs, STATEHOOD ANO THE
TRIBUNE.

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be unguestionei, and that we may hav
the further rule of robbery and cutting
the throats of all who dare to oppoS
any device or order OF tho e chiefs" Tht
foregoing extract is from the Sal
Lake Tribune of yesterday, and is par
tiai list of the objects which that jour
nal affects to believe the Mormons seeE
10 attain. The sentiments are false
be false, and it is his misfortune that be
has not enough common sense to COM
prehend that every reader is aware Of
their falsity. 1t was by a succession oil
such bald-headed chestnuts that the
paper referred to endeavored to meet
our proposition that Statehood w-uId
be a boon alike to Mormon ard Gen
tile.
We said that Mormons had always
been the oppressed and never the op-
pressors, and they retorted that Dr..
Robinson had been murderej, that
Henry Lawrence had been Cut off the
ployed in the district schools, and that
the Salt Lake police are terrors to
lew-abidlng community and are not
handsome. We said that Mormon rule
had been eminen ly honest and judi
cious, and are met with the
col and deliberate Nun 3hausenism
that, I'VE stand prepared to es-
tablish that in no Territory OF the
United States has there been so much
direct stealing by public officers. so
many cases of maifeasance and mis-
feasance in office as in Utah." we are
told that offices are given as rewards
for outrages committed at the bidding
of chief, that men get on the police
force because of their known willing
ness to commit any crime demanded of
them that Gentiles are taxed dispro
portionately, and have to employ night
watchmen; that, II fact, a despotism |
has been established in the midst of the |
republic, which res pected neither the |
country's laws nor the private rights Of
men.
We wonder why it IS that the Tribune
writes such stuff. 1t is impossible that
any inhabitant of Utah arrived at years
of discretion does not know the above
ROT to be the double disti..sd extract
OF foolishness and fslsehood. 1t is
barely possible that there are those in
distant communities who are so devoid
of information and so lar from any I'M
Outstanding of human nature, that
they can believe it in part. When, as
at the present moment the situation :.
demands argument not assertion, facts
not fiction, is it not possible for the
Tribune to come to the scratch in seri-
Gus attempt to be logical? Must it for .
ever ride its hobby horse?
We assert, and our position is unas-
ssilable, that there has never been a =.
statute upon the Utah statute books;
which Disseminated between Mormon
and Gentle; that the latter has enjoyed
every privilege under the law possessed
By the former; that there is no reason
TO spprehend that the Mormons would
make an effort to deny any
tight or privilege to their religious OPP
ponents in case of the admission of
Utah. We asseverate that in choosing
the chaos of Territorial oppression, as :.
in Utah, and the settle :
condition of Statehood, no business !
man should for moment hesitate. =
There is no people on the earth with '
3 finer commercial credit than the Nor. =
mons, and it is not unreasonable to u
conclude that State under Mormon rule y
would enjoy similar reputation. Since =
The organ of revolution, the journal ="
that has again given the business inter o.
.stS of Utah black eye in reasserting ~
hat the garrison at Fort Douglas is y
necessary to restrain the Mormons 81
cannot be sensible long enough to state u
its objections to Statehood, we ~
hall essay to do so for it. 1t is not L
hat ii is believed that any man will "
suffer deprivation of his rights, but ="
hat it is thought that the fight agains "
,olygsmy will be largely abandoned, ""
md that the miners may suffer through
axation. We believe that these items
you'd cover the objections of every vi
ensible man who has any objections m
'he Tribune processes to believe that the tn
iormons Will make pretense of aban en-
oning polygamy in order TO secure pr
tatehcod. But that is where the sheet in
false and sophistical. De
We believe ii to be generally under lie
TODD That The Mormons have had n
retty strong inducements to give up ST
heir plural marriage system, and we q
eIieye il to be conceded that they have n,
OF seen 81 10 do so. f
II the Mormons adopt Constitution b